Support a firm, simple declaration against ACTA

ACTA must respect sharing and cooperation: it must do nothing
that would hinder the unremunerated noncommercial making,
copying, giving, lending, owning, using, transporting, importing
or exporting of any objects or works.

ACTA must not weasel about what is commercial: no labeling of
any noncommercial activities as somehow commercial-like or
treating them as if they were commercial.

ACTA must not tighten digital handcuffs: it must not hinder any
activity in regard to any product on account of its capacity to
circumvent technical measures that restrict use of copies of
works of authorship.

ACTA must not interfere with individuals' noncommercial use of
the Internet (whether or not carried out using commmercial
Internet services) or undermine individuals' right or ability to
connect to the Internet.

ACTA must not require anyone to collect or release any data
about individuals' use of the Internet. It must not harm privacy
rights or other human rights.

ACTA must not hold the companies that implement the Internet
responsible for the substance of their customers'
communications. (For example, no punishment by disconnection,
neither explicitly required or indirectly compelled.)

ACTA must not require copyright or patents, or any law similar
to one of those, to attach to any particular sort of thing or
idea.

ACTA must not make any requirements about what acts constitute civil
infringement, or what acts constitute criminal infringement, of
copyright law, or patent law, or any law similar to one of those.

ACTA must not use the propaganda term "intellectual property" or try
to treat copyright law and patent law as a single issue.

ACTA must not stretch the term "counterfeiting" to apply to
copyright or patent infringement.

If ACTA includes a mechanism for amendment, it must apply these
requirements to all future amendments of ACTA.

Or, as a simpler alternative,

Cancel ACTA entirely. Although parts of it are not
objectionable, they are secondary to ACTA's threat to our
freedom. Unless we are sure that the repressive aspects of ACTA
are blocked, the main significance of ACTA is as a threat to
society. Killing ACTA would be a fine way to get rid of this
threat.

This declaration does not conflict with the Wellington
Declaration. If you
agree with both, you can sign both.

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